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Mar 24, 2018 at 12:01 AMMar 24, 2018 at 10:50 AM

PHOTOS: President Trump’s visit this weekend

UPDATE 3 p.m.: The president has returned to Mar-a-Lago and is not expected to leave again today.

UPDATE 2:20 p.m.: The president’s motorcade has taken a detour away from the March for Our Lives. Upon leaving his golf club, the motorcade turned north on Australian Avenue, then east on Okeechobee Boulevard.

The motorcade then headed over the middle bridge to Palm Beach and continued traveling east to A1A, where it turned right and made the approximately 1.5 mile scenic, oceanfront drive to Mar-a-Lago.

The detour enabled the president to avoid not only the March for Our Lives but also a large impeachment billboard installed along the motorcade route last week.

Came to cheer @realDonaldTrump motorcade, only got to see mainstream media vans after president took different route. #TrumpInPalmBeach pic.twitter.com/LQKrozKEXt

— George Bennett (@gbennettpost) March 24, 2018

UPDATE 2 p.m.: The president’s motorcade has taken a detour away from the March for Our Lives.

UPDATE 1:55 p.m.: The president’s motorcade is now heading east on Southern Boulevard, toward hundreds of protesters linking the motorcade route for the March for Our Lives.

UPDATE 1:13 p.m.: A tweet the president posted while at his private golf club offered “thoughts and prayers” to the victims of an attack in southern France on Friday.

The attacker, a Moroccan-born French national, shouted he was a soldier from ISIS, witnesses said, before opening fire and killing a worker and a customer. He was shot dead by police on the scene. A police officer who swapped places with a hostage died today from a gunshot to the neck.

The president made no mention of the attacker’s support of ISIS. He tweeted his post to French President Emmanuel Macron and added an exclamation point after Macron’s name for emphasis.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the horrible attack in France yesterday, and we grieve the nation’s loss. We also condemn the violent actions of the attacker and anyone who would provide him support. We are with you @EmmanuelMacron!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 24, 2018

UPDATE 10:57 a.m.: Deputy White House press secretary

Lindsay Walters released this statement this morning:

“We applaud the many courageous young Americans exercising their First Amendment rights today. Keeping our children safe is a top priority of the President’s, which is why he urged Congress to pass the Fix NICS and STOP School Violence Acts, and signed them into law. Additionally, on Friday, the Department of Justice issued the rule to ban bump stocks following through on the President’s commitment to ban devices that turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns.”

UPDATE 9:04 a.m.: The president has arrived at Trump International Golf Club in suburban West Palm Beach. Depending on how long he spends there, he may see March for Our Lives demonstrators who plan to walk his motorcade route this afternoon.

UPDATE 8:50 a.m.: President Trump’s motorcade just left Mar-a-Lago. No word on his destination but this is usually the time he leaves Mar-a-Lago and heads to Trump International Golf Club when he visits.

UPDATE 8:38 a.m. No word on the President’s plans today but the press pool is assembled and waiting at Mar-a-Lago for the president.

This morning’s view of Mar-a-Lago. No word yet on @realDonaldTrump’s plans, but weather would accommodate golf. #TrumpInPalmBeach pic.twitter.com/aSZCnVNWmD

— George Bennett (@gbennettpost) March 24, 2018

UPDATE 8:01 a.m.: It’s sunny and 56-degrees in Palm Beach this morning. The high temperature is expected to be 75-degrees, with no rain in sight.

Here’s a live look at Mar-a-Lago this morning.

TRUMP CAM: » Trump cam: Live view of Mar-a-Lago

President, wife and son arrive for Palm Sunday weekend

Fresh off some late veto drama before signing a $1.3 trillion spending bill, President Donald Trump arrived around sunset Friday with first lady Melania Trump and son Barron to spend Palm Sunday weekend at Mar-a-Lago.

In a tweet posted about 20 minutes before landing, the president ripped the $1.3 trillion spending bill, offered “national security” as his reason for signing it and asked for line-item veto power for future spending bills.

As a matter of National Security I've signed the Omnibus Spending Bill. I say to Congress: I will NEVER sign another bill like this again. To prevent this omnibus situation from ever happening again, I'm calling on Congress to give me a line-item veto for all govt spending bills! https://t.co/kYwMk5AE5k

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2018

The president has no official events scheduled this weekend. However, gun control demonstrations are planned throughout the county as part of the nationwide March for Our Lives.

This afternoon, demonstrators in West Palm Beach plan to march east along the presidential motorcade route to the Southern Boulevard bridge - the closest the public is permitted to go to Mar-a-Lago.

Willy Guardiola (c) and others in favor of Donald Trump wave flags and banners to express support for the president beneath the impeachment billboard near I-95 and Southern Blvd. along the President's motorcade route Friday, March 23, 2018. (Damon Higgins / The Palm Beach Post)